_THE _MICHIGAN .DAILY FRIDAY, 11n. ----- ---- - - I .. - 11 -- - -- - . .1- - -_._._-_______.__._-__-_=_--_--_- I_-_I-::_-__1._-1 l.._I- - 11 Student LEAVE US FACE IT. Sex is here to stay. Here are the questions a national mag- azine is now circulating among the coun- try's campus leaders for eventual publica- tion: "How would you describe the condition of student morals on your campus? Whole- some? Lax? Average?" "How well do you feel student attitudes toward sex compare with those of non- college men and women of the same age?" "If campus morals leave something to be desired, what reasons would you ascribe to this condition?" "What can be done to improve student morals?" This magazine knows sex is here to stay. And as long as it,persists in hanging around, the national publication is going to make use of it. If you really think about the situation, you begin to wonder if sex isn't being exploited. Writing is certainly an unnatural way to employ the phenomenon. Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: JIM BROWN I I Morals I daresay there are many old-fashioned individuals who would object to this misuse of sex. But as long as "verboten" labels are as- signed to sex, vicarious connection with the subject always makes for an exciting evening. Looking over the questions, I begin to wonder what wholesome or average morals are. I'm sure a puritan and a prostitute would have different ideas on the subject. But anyone could see how the average reader would construe the word "wholesome." It sounds attractive and satisfying, doesn't it? And scan the other questions. All are leading. All are an attempt to evoke clever remarks which would make the reader smile with satisfaction. I really begin to wonder whether an article based on answers to the above ques- tions would be of any value. Morals are individual-recall the case of the puritan and the wanton--and neither this mag- azine or any other "authority" is going to do anything about them. These magazines are taking entirely too much freedom with sex. They are taking advantage of it. I, for one, am against it. Let sex take care of itself. Publicity is only apt to make its existence unpleasant and unhealthy. -B. S. Brown. Thev City Editor's SCRATCH PAD By AL BLUMROSEN LAST SPRING The Daily ran a story and an editorial about a bunch of students who got together to do something about the high cost of eating in Ann Arbor. Since then, the eating club that was developed from that meeting, has grown to some 400 members and is now at a stage where the manager of :the cafeteria is having troubles feeding all of them in a short time. From advertisements in The Daily it. ap- pears that students are getting a real break in eating costs there. Daily editorial policy forbids the men- tion of names of commercial organizations in the news columns of the paper. So this will be my last mention of that organiza- tion. As far as we are concerned they are a full-fledged business outfit-not just a stu- dent enterprise. * * * TERE IS A LESSON in the story of this eating club that a lot of people around here could learn. When students decide they want to go out and get something done- they usually manage to find a way to do it. These people went ahead and set up an outfit that is now a going concern. A, lot of people in high places will be sur- prised to see what students can do. Another example of student potentialities was the Student Legislature request to the Board of Regents last spring for the lifting of the political speakers ban. The document that the SL presented to the Regents was a masterful brief of the facts. With faculty and administration sup- port, the ban was lifted. * * '* IN THE STUDENT BODY are many stu- dents with natural, but latent talent for leadership-and training for that leadership is one of the jobs of this University. If these talents were given a chance to *CURR EN MVI ES DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN i At the Michigan: THE SECRET GARDEN, with Margaret O'Brien, Dean Stockwell, and Herbert Marshall. rpIHROUGH STELLAR work from an en- ergetic trio of child actors, Hollywood's adaptation of the Juvenile classic "The Se- cret Garden" comes to the screen a thor- oughly enjoyable movie. Carefully nurtured adult sophistication is left behind, and the audience is taken into a new and delightful world-that of an imag- inative child who comes into a strange, frightening Yorkshire household. Margaret O'Brien, featured as thei adjusted orphan, redeems her recent matic shortcomings by giving a fine trayal of a child finding mystery happiness in a garden which has1 locked up for ten years. mal- dra- por- and been At the State: SCENE OF THE CRIME, with Van John- son, Gloria DeHaven and Arlene Dahl. THIS IS A FILM designed to show that the policeman's lot is not a happy one. It goes about accomplishing its task in a rou- tine fashion and gets routine results. We, the people, are invited to follow police lieutenant Van Johnson as he wends his merry way from wife to corpse to cutie to culprit and back to wife, with a few tan- gential trips for fresh corpses. Poor Van has his troubles, what with two of his erst- while assistants plus his pet informer going down for the count. If that isn't enough to worry the guy, his ever lovin' wife, so perfect a creature that she is not even jealous of luscious Gloria De- Haven, is on the brink of going home to mother unless he gets a different kind of job. But Lieutenant Van perseveres and even- tually cracks the case. For those bored by murders, too cute dia- logue, and Van Johnson, this picture might be recommended on a scenic basis. It is pos- sible to spend the duration of the film trying to decide whether Miss DeHaven or Van's Mrs., Arlene Dahl would be nicer to come home to. This question affords more room for discussion than any concerning the relative acting abilities of the two ladies. Van Johnson was convincing as a movie cop, which is to say he didn't take off his hat any more than was absolutely necessary. Also on the program is an abomination in glaring splotchy- color, called "Dude Rancheroos," advertising Wyoming as a vacation paradise. -Kirk Hampton. develop-some more prised. people might be sur- At the rural home of her recluse uncle, Ierbert Marshall, she is soon put to right by severe- treatment from the servants. Softening the blow, and later joining her in her intrigues about the garden, is the native boy Dicken. Dean Stockwell puts in an excellent per- forinance as the unwanted son who rules the house and- makes himself miserable in the bargain. The adult actors fit well into the background, letting the children hold the stage. Discounting small faults, "The Secret Gar- den" is an absorbing movie for juvenile 3onsumption, and will also give a refreshing lift to prematurely jaundiced adults. -Fran Ivick. ON THE I Washington Merry- Go-Round CIINIEMA A t Hill Auditorium ... THE BANK DICK, and NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK, with W. C, Fields and assistants. THE GREAT MAN with the bulbous nose is at his whiskied best in the welcome revival at the "new" Hill Auditorium. Some aid is rendered by such comics as Franklin Pangborn and Leon Errol, but both films are 100 proof Fields. Containing doubtless the most spectac- ular and hilarious automobile chase in movie history, "The Bank Dick" is su- perior to the second film probably because Fields is not forced to share footage with Gloria Jean who sings at the slightest provocation in "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break." The first opus spoofs a great many hallowed American. traditions as it delineates the rise to fortune of a com- pletely unprincipaled ne'er-do-well. Reduced top rint, the escapades in the film would sound like just so much non- sense; but with the Fields form divine in virtually every scene, "The Bank Dick" becomes a monument in the annals of slap- stick. He throws flower pots at his daughtei' and captures desperate bandits with the same magnificent aplomb. Everyone, him- self included, knows him for a loafer and a faker; yet he manages to maintain an in- sane kind of dignity. "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" makes practically no excuse for lack of plot, and none is needed. Fields scampers through his usual alcoholic and mildly amorous ventures, meets and is defeated by an ice-cream soda, and cares not a bit for what will happen in the next reel. The audience doesn't care either as long as he is in it and Gloria Jean keeps her mouth shut. Some day a psychologist will analyze Fields' pictures and come to the conclusion, that his popularity was due to the fact that his audiences were able to identify them- selves with his good-humored misbehavior. In the meantime suffice it to say that he is funny as hell. -Fredrica Winters. Publication in The Daily Official] Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in] typewritten form to the Office of the Assistant to the President; Room 2552 Administration Building, by 3:00 p.m. on the day preceding publication (11:00 a.m. Saturdays). FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1949 VOL. LX, No. 5 Notices Faculty of the College of Litera- ture, Science, and the Arts: Meet- ing, 4:10 p.m., Mon., Oct. 3, 1025 Angell Hall. AGENDA 1. Consideration of the minutes cf the meeting of June 6, 1949 (pp. 1515-1516). 2. Presentation of new mem- bers. 3. Resolutions for Professors Daniel L. Rich and William H. Worrell. 4. Memorial for Prof. DeWitt H1. Parker. 5. Consideration of reports sub- mitted with the call to this meet- ing. a. Executive Committee-Prof. W. H. Maurer. b. Executive Board of the Graduate School-Prof. F. K. Sparrow. No report. c. Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs - Prof. Shorey Peterson. No report. d. Deans' Conference -Dean Hayward Keniston. No report. 6. Announcements. 7. New business. University Directory changes or addresses and phone numbers not available earlier cannot be ac- cepted after Tues., October 4. The Bureau of School Services has recently moved from 3519 Administration; the telephone number has changed from Exten- sion 2632 to Extension 2607. Choral Union Ushers: The fol- lowing Ushers pick up your Usher Cards at the box office in Hill Auditorium today between 5 an1 6 p.m. Barbara Abar, Carol Alchin, Helliar W. Anne, Dorothy Aron- son, Marguesite Aruzian, Jean Paula Assikan, Ellen C. Axon, Beverly E. Bailey, Helen P. Blaker, Elivera M. Bamber, Lois Ban- borough, Florence Baron, Virginia Baeur, Barbara E. Bell, Geraldine R. Berry, Justine Bessman, Jeanne Birchall, Jane Birks, Pat Blake, Margaret Booth, Elaine Brovan, Therese Carrig, Joshua Chover, Russell Church, Sylvia L. Clark, Mildred Cobitz, Mary E. Corin, Ann D. Cotton, Beverly Cunning- ham, Diane Danziger, Jeanne C. Dauin, Phyllis Dickie, Eleanor A. Doersam, A. Rosemary Dowsey, Glee Dudgeon, Evelyn Dworsky, Carol Eagle, Esther S. Egge, Lea Eisner, Nathalie M. Elliott, Gret- chen F. Fielstra, Norma Fishel, Jewell O. Foster, Lily Fox, Mary Frakes. June Fiseitag, Maxine G. Frelich, Arthur Friedman, Allan C. Good- man, Rene M. Grinnell, David R. Hamilton, Grace H. Hampton, Lil- lian Hanjian,.Eva Havas, Bruce D. Herrigel, Gertrude Himelhoch, Rhode Joy Norwitz, Clyde U. House, Nan Hubach, Susan Ka- dian, Norma Kaplan, Marilyn Keck, Doris Kirschmann, Janet Klein, Jean Klerman, William Lanxner, James M. LeBlanc, Val- erie Lemper, Madeline Levy, Gail Locken, Jo Ann Lyons, Margaretr McCall, Margaret Maltas, Naomik Mehlman, June E. Moore, Mary Muller, M. J. Murray, Elaine Nag- edvoort, Dolores E. Oates, Irenex Ossian, Joseph Palmer, Jr., Tyner Evelyn Peace, Barbara Perkins,' James S. Peterson, Doris R. Pode-1 wils, Mary Margaret Poole. Lorraine Rath, Judith C. Raub, Mary G. Riggs, Harriet Risk, Marlyn Ruff, Bill Sadler, Stanley H. Saulson, John S. Schlee, Rose- marie Seguin, Martin Sharda,I Lanette Sheaffer, Edward Silber- farb, Rachel Solomon, Tom Spar- row, Judith M. Starr, Thomas Mi- chael Straus, Ulrich Straus, Rene Targan, Diane S. Thorp, Emily Tomell, Ellen Traxler, Harvey Van, Dyke, Richard J. Wall, Nancy L.1 Ward, Nancy Watkins, Felicia Weissman, Bernice Weinberger, Eugenia Wells, Wilma Jeanne Wil- son, Evelyn L. Wohlgemuth, Mar-f tin K. Wyngaarden, Jacquelyn Yund, Jacqueline Zipp, Annette Zipple. All freshman women who did, not draw for teams at League Night must come to the Under- graduate Office in the Michigan League this week and do so. Bureau of- Appointments: All students previously regis- tered with the Bureau of Appoint- ments and presently in school are requested to notify the Bureau of their course elections and to indi- cate when they will be available for a position. Office hours for students: 9-12 a.m. and 2-4 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fri- days. University Terrace Apartments and Veterans' Emergency Hous- ing Project waiting list will be open Oct. 6 and 7. Applications will be taken in the Office of Stu- dent Affairs, 1020 Administration Bldg. Students with the following qualifications may apply: 1. Only married veterans of World War II who are at present registered in the University may apply. 2. Only Michigan residents may apply. (The Regents' definition of a Michigan resident follows: "No one shall be deemed a resident of Michigan for the purpose of regis- tration in the University unless he or she has resided in this State six months preceding the date of pro- posed enrollment.") 3. Only students who have com- pleted one term in this University may apply. (A Summer Session is considered as one-half term.) 4. Only full-time students car- rying 12 hours of work or more, or part-time-student-and-part-timle- teachers, whose total hours of teaching and class hours elected amount to an equivalent of 12 hours or more, may apply. 5. Veterans who have incurred physical disability of a serious na- ture will be given first considera- tion. A written statement from Dr. Forsythe of the University Health Service concerning such disabili- ty should be included in the ap- plication. 6. Length of service, and par- ticularly overseas service, will be an important determining factor. (In considering an applicant's i total length of service, A.S.T.P., -12, and similarprograms will be liscounted.) 7. If both husband and wife are eterans of World War II and the usband is a Michigan resident nd both are enrolled in the Uni- ersity, their combined applica- ions will be given special consid- ration. Each applicant must present vith his application his Military lecord and Report of Separation, s well as his Marriage Certificate. Michigan State Civil Service ommission announces an exami- iation for Unemployment Claims Examiner 1. The State of Michi- an also announces an examina- ion for Buyer Trainee 1, which is newly-established class for raining appointees in the field of >urchasing with the Michigan Department of Administration. Additional information may be btained at the Bureau of Ap- pointments, 3528 Administration Building. Academic Notices Statistics Seminar: Meeting to grrange hours, 12 noon, Fri., Sept. 30, 3020 Angell Hall. Lectures Dr. Louise Shier, Associate Cu- rator, Museum of Archeology, will present an illustrated lecture on A RomanTown in Egypt" at the first meeting of the Women's Re- search Club, 8 p.m., Mon., Oct. 3, West Leture Room, Rackham Bldg. Concerts Carillon Recital: The third pro- gram in the fall series of carillon recitals by Prof. Percival Price will be heard at 7:15 p.m., Fri., Sept. 30. Selections from Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg, three carillon com- positions by Nees, a group of Lat- in-American airs, and Farandole, from Bizet's L'Arlesienne. This program Will be repeated Mon., Oct. 3. Events Today SL Better Business Bureau will meet at 4:15 p.m., Rm. 3D, Union. Men's Glee Club Tryouts: 7:15 p.m., Rm. 3-G, Union. Try- outs are held only once a year at this time, and no new members will be admitted the spring semes- ter. Canterbury Club: Tea and open house, 4-6 p.m. All students invit- ed. Westminster .Squirrel .Cage Scavenger Hunt. Meet in Recrea- tion Hall, Presbyterian Church, at 8 p.m. Visitors' Night, Department of Astronomy-7 :45 p.m., 3017 An- gell Hall. A short talk, "An Illus- trated Story of the Moon," will be given by Dr. Carl A. Bauer. Follow- ing the talk the student observa- tory, fifth ,loor, Angell Hall, will be open for observations of the moon and. Jupiter if the sky is clear. Children must be accom- panied by adults. All students in the Doctoral Program- in Social Psychology meet at 8 p.m. at the home of Dr. Daniel Katz, 2870 Overridge Drive. Lutheran Student Association: Open House and Party, 8 p.m. in Zion Lutheran Parish Hall, 309 E. Washington Street. Michigan-Dames Tea given by Mrs. Alexaner Ruthven at her home, 815 S. University. All wives of students, internes, and studeut wives are invited. Association Coffee Hour: Lane Hall, 4:30 to 6 p.m. Young Progressives of America: Executive board meeting, 4 p.m. Union. Membership meeting, Mon. 7 p.m., Union. New and old mem- bers welcome at both meetings. C.E.D.: Committee to End Dis- crimination will meet in the Un- ion. Former representatives of or- ganizations to the C.E.D. and in- terested individuals are invited tc attend. Coming Events Approved Student Sponsored So.- cial Events for coming weekend: Fri., Sept. 30 Alpha Omicron Pi, open house; 800 Oxford Road. Cong. Disc. Guild, picnic, Island, Women's. Physical Ed. Club. open house, WAB. Zeta Tau Alpha, record dance, 826 Tappan. Sat,, Oct. 1 Adams House, party, Adam, House. Alpha Delta Phi, record dance 556 S. State. Alpha Kappa Kappa, recort dance, 1315 Hill. THERE SEEMS to be some con- fusion among those who are interested in being on the staff of the MICHIGANENSIAN as to the definition of the term "try- out." I would like to clarify this un- certainty by explaining that there is no test or trial period. The title "tryout" is attached to all fresh- man and sophomore staffers of the student publications. Ad- mitedly, it is misleading and its origin is unknown, but it has been carried down from year to year for lack of a better word. It is the general custom for po- tential editors and business man- agers to spend their first year without an official or paid bosi- tion. During that year they se- lect the staff, business or edi- torial, on which they would like to work. Their efforts are chan- eled in the various phases of ac- tually putting out the ;ENSIAN and managing its business affairs. In the spring, junior editorships or positions are awarded to those who have exhibited the greatest interest and potential during their "tryout" period. The junior posi- tions are salaried and carry the responsibility of supervising one department of the yearbook and training new tryouts to eventually take over the job. Senior positions are also award ed in the spring and carry such titles as: Managing Editor, Bus- iness Manager, Associate Editor, Office Manager, Sales Manager, etc. These are the people who are the leaders, the people who. are responsible for what the ENSIAN does and is.uT -Jeannie Johnson, Managing Editor, Michiganensian. Alpha Tau Omega, pledge for- mal, 1415 Cambridge. Chicago House, dance, West Quad. Delta Tau Delta, record dance, 1928 Geddes. Hawaii Club, party, Lane Hall. Phi Delta Phi, record dance, 502 E. Madison. Phi Kappa Tau, record dance, 808 Tappan. Phi Rho Sigma, party, 300 N. Ingalls. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, party, 1408 Washtenaw. Theta Xi, party, 1345 Washte- naw. Michigan Christian Fellowship, picnic, Island or Lane Hall. Hawaii Club, party, Lane Hall. (Continued on Page 7) . . -t Xettep4 TO THE EDITOR The Daily accords its readers the privilege of submitting letters for publication in this column. Subject to space limitations, the general pol- icy is to publish in the order in which they are received all letters bearing the writer's signature and address. Letters exceeding 300 words, repeti- tious letters and letters of a defama- tory character or such letters which for any other reason are not in good taste will not be published. The editors reserve the privilege of con- densing letters. * "s 'lr Tryout. . To the Editor: WITH DREW PEARSON By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON-The batle over old-age pensions in the steel industry is being watched by several million people not only in other industries but especially in southern California and Florida where Dr. Townsend's old-age pension movement and the ham- and-eggers have been so strong. Regardless of how the steel dispute comes out, more and more demands for old-age pensions will follow. One little-realized fact in the steel dis- pute is that, during the president's fact- finding board hearings, CIO chief Phil Mur- ray appealed to the steel industry to settle the old-age pension issue by supporting the social security, bill now before Congress. He said: "Look here, you fellows, there's a bill be- fore Congress right now calling for in- creased old-age pensions fors.everyone. Will you join me in supporting it?" Murray's remark was addressed to End- ers Voorhees and John Stephens, execu- tives of U.S. Steel; to C. 1. White of Re- public Steel, A. B. Homer of Bethlehem, Ben Moreell of Jones-Laughlin and several others. However, he got no response. None offered to support the congressional bill . for old-age pensions. Murray's inference was that if Congress had handled the pension matter for every- one, his union would not need to threaten a strike. As it is, however, the unions with sufficient strike power, such as the coal miners, auto workers, steelworkers et al, can get pensions. But unskilled labor, farm labor, white-collar workers and oldsters who never belonged to unions will get second-rate pen- sions-or none. TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR THREATENED TUFLDGE T. ALAN GOLDSBOROUGH, who Forty-nine Senators have protested the Canadian agreement on air routes as a state department invasion of the Senate's ratification powers. Meanwhile Canada has put the State Department on the spot by threatening to throw out every U.S. line from Gander airport in Newfoundland to- morrow (Sept. 30). Gander is the most im- portant base on the trans-Atlantic hop, and the constitutional issue raised by Judge Goldsborough is probably the most impor- tant since the Dred Scott decision. MERRY-GO-ROUND THE AMERICAN embassy in Rome has informed Edda Ciano, Mussolini's daughter and widow of Italy's Fascist for- eign minister, that she can soon expect 30,000,000 lire from the U.S.A. The money is part of the royalties earned in the United States through the sale of Ciano's diaries. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder's office made the decision-believe it or not-on the grounds it can't be proved Edda was a Fascist.. .. Robert Haggerty of Detroit will be the new director of census, and as such will dole out 150,000 jobs to find out how many people live in the United States in 1950 ... Secretary of the air force Syming- ton had a personal reason for snubbing the Navy court that is investigating the B-36 smear. Under Navy rules, Cedric Worth, who wrote the smear sheet attacking Sym- ington, would have - the right to cross-ex- amine the witness. Rather than face Worth's questioning, Symington ducked the hearing. (Feared he might lose his temper!) . . . One reason Democratic moguls have been worried about a steel strike is because it would cut off the sheet steel now desperately needed for new grain-storage bins in the farm belt. Democrats feel they won the elec- I Fifty-Ninth Year Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. I Editorial Staff Leon Jaroff..........Managing Editor Al Blumrosen............City Editor Philip Dawson...Editorial Director Mary Stein............Associate Editor Jo Misner.............Associate Editor George Walker.......Associate Editor Alex Lmanian......Photography Editor Pres Holmes........Sports Co-Editor Merle Levin .......... Sports Co-Editor Roger Goelz. Associate Sports Editor Miriam Cady.........Women's Editor Lee Kaltenbach.. Associate Women's Ed. Bess Hayes Young.......... Librarian Business Staff Roger Wellington... .Business Manager Jim Dangi....... Advertising Manager Bernie Aidinoff.......Finance Manager Ralph Ziegler......Circulation Manager Telephone 23-24-1 Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited to this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other mattersherein are also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second-class mail matter. Subscription during the regular school year by carrier, $5.00, by mail, $6.00. Looking Back :r 50 YEARS AGO: CROWDED conditions were relieved by the opening of the chemistry addition and. the new Law Building. The building program, which cost $100,000, included a new dome and ceilings for University Hall. * * * 25 YEARS AGO: According to a rough estimate of college officials, the average student expenses for a year were between $750 and $1,000 assum- inaflip cf-iir~ ,,fhvf. w.c. a Mfirhigan r, id1Pn1 J BARNABY if you insist on going to college this fall, why not pick up one of these scholarships? I've a short-cut for that, little girt- Learn Latin first. Most English words havE their And you didn't come from Petoquamscot in the Narragansett Country, otherwise called King's t